Civil War Book List The dreams of Mairhe Mehan Fic Arm Armstrong, Jennifer, 1961- Published 1996 Reading Counts! Level: 6.9 / 7.0 pts.
Who comes with cannons? Fic Bea Beatty, Patricia, 1922- Published 1992 Reading Counts! Level: 5.5 / 7.0 pts. Review by TJ: Truth Hopkins, a twelve-year old Quaker, is forced to leave her father and move to South Carolina with her Aunt and Uncle. At first she is not well received and thought of as a kettle cousin, or a person who just going to eat food and not help. Soon though, she proves herself. She finds out that her relatives are conductors on the Underground Railroad. She travels with her Uncle on the underground railroad to New York to retrieve her cousin, who was captured by the Union when he was forced to march in the front of the Confederate lines at Gettysburg.
Patricia Beatty's story is very fast paced, and major events are happening all the time. This makes for a very quick read. I like her writing because she describes the setting, before she tells you what is happening. She is also very descriptive. This book was very interesting, and a great historical fiction, but I didn't care much for the particular area of the Civil War it is about, so that made it hard for me to like it much. I recommend this book to intermediate grades and above, because I doubt anyone younger would be interested, or be able to comprehend much of it.
The dreams of Mairhe Mehan
Fic Arm Armstrong, Jennifer, 1961-
Published 1996
Reading Counts! Level: 6.9 / 7.0 pts.
Who comes with cannons?
Fic Bea Beatty, Patricia, 1922-
Published 1992
Reading Counts! Level: 5.5 / 7.0 pts.
Review by TJ: Truth Hopkins, a twelve-year old Quaker, is forced to leave her father and move to South Carolina with her Aunt and Uncle. At first she is not well received and thought of as a kettle cousin, or a person who just going to eat food and not help. Soon though, she proves herself. She finds out that her relatives are conductors on the Underground Railroad. She travels with her Uncle on the underground railroad to New York to retrieve her cousin, who was captured by the Union when he was forced to march in the front of the Confederate lines at Gettysburg.
Patricia Beatty's story is very fast paced, and major events are happening all the time. This makes for a very quick read. I like her writing because she describes the setting, before she tells you what is happening. She is also very descriptive. This book was very interesting, and a great historical fiction, but I didn't care much for the particular area of the Civil War it is about, so that made it hard for me to like it much. I recommend this book to intermediate grades and above, because I doubt anyone younger would be interested, or be able to comprehend much of it.
North by night
Fic Bur Burchard, Peter.
Published 1962
With every drop of blood
Fic Col Collier, James Lincoln, 1928-
Published 1994
Reading Counts! Level: 5.9 / 9.0 pts.
Private Captain: a story of Gettysburg
Fic Cri Crisp, Marty.
Published 2001
Reading Counts! Level: 5.7 / 16.0 pts.
When will this cruel war be over?: the Civil War diary of Emma Simpson
Fic Den Denenberg, Barry.
Published 1996
Reading Counts! Level: 6.5 / 4.0 pts.
The island on the border: a Civil War story
Fic Dic Dick, Trella (Lamson)
Published 1963
Bull Run
Fic Fle Fleischman, Paul.
Published 1993
Reading Counts! Level: 6.4 / 4.0 pts.
Becca's story
Fic For Forman, James D.
Published 1992
Reading Counts! Level: 7.1 / 13.0 pts.
Hear the wind blow
Fic Hah Hahn, Mary Downing.
Published 2003
Reading Counts! Level: 5.2 / 14.0 pts.
Which way freedom?
Fic Han Hansen, Joyce.
Published 1986
Reading Counts! Level: 6.5 / 10.0 pts.
Guerrilla season
Fic Hug Hughes, Pat (Patrice Raccio)
Published 2003
Crossing the Colorado Rockies, 1864
Fic Law Lawlor, Laurie.
Published 1999
Reading Counts! Level: 6.4 / 10.0 pts.
The journal of James Edmond Pease: a Civil War Union soldier
Fic Mur Murphy, Jim, 1947-
Published 1998
Reading Counts! Level: 6.8 / 10.0 pts.
A dangerous promise
Fic Nix Nixon, Joan Lowery.
Published 1994
Reading Counts! Level: 6.1 / 9.0 pts.
After the rain
Fic Osb Osborne, Mary Pope.
Published 2002
My brother's keeper
Fic Osb Osborne, Mary Pope.
Published 2000
Reading Counts! Level: 3.1 / 5.0 pts.
Soldier's heart: being the story of the enlistment and due service of the boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers
Fic Pau Paulsen, Gary.
Published 1998
Reading Counts! Level: 5.9 / 5.0 pts.
The river between us
Fic Pec Peck, Richard, 1934-
Published 2003
Reading Counts! Level: 6.2 / 10.0 pts.
The slopes of war
Fic Per Perez, Norah A.
Published 1984
Reading Counts! Level: 6.5 / 12.0 pts.
Amelia's war
Fic Rin Rinaldi, Ann.
Published 1999
Reading Counts! Level: 6.1 / 13.0 pts.
Girl in blue
Fic Rin Rinaldi, Ann.
Published 2001
Reading Counts! Level: 6.1 / 15.0 pts.
The last silk dress
Fic Rin Rinaldi, Ann.
Published 1990
Reading Counts! Level: 8.1 / 13.0 pts.
The perilous road
Fic Ste Steele, William O., 1917-
Published 1958
Reading Counts! Level: 5.6 / 7.0 pts.
The drummer boy of Vicksburg
Fic Wis Wisler, G. Clifton.
Published 1997
Reading Counts! Level: 5.8 / 7.0 pts.
Mr. Lincoln's drummer
Fic Wis Wisler, G. Clifton.
Published 1995
Reading Counts! Level: 6.4 / 7.0 pts.
Mustang Flats
Fic Wis Wisler, G. Clifton.
Published 1997
Reading Counts! Level: 4.8 / 6.0 pts.
The boy of Chancellorville and other Civil War stories
SC Mar edited by James Marten.
Published 2002